Replacement windows
The Victorian streets of the conservation area need timber sliding sashes. The 1930s and 1950s houses that make up most of the town want well-made casements, and slim aluminium suits the more striking inter-war villas.
Double glazing, windows and doors in Leatherhead
Windows, doors and bifolds for Leatherhead, Ashtead, Fetcham and the Bookhams, from a family firm with its own fitters.
- Leatherhead, Ashtead, Fetcham and Bookham
- Aluminium bifold and sliding doors
- Free survey and a written, itemised quote
East Grinstead showroom · covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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From 149 verified customer reviews
Certass registered
Fully insured and SafeContractor approved
10 year guarantee
On every product we supply and install
Family run since 2007
Our own fitters — never subcontracted out
Holtye Windows in Leatherhead
A small town with large villages
Leatherhead is a crossroads town on the River Mole, with junction 9 of the M25 on its eastern edge. The town itself is small. Most of the people it serves live in the large residential villages round it: Ashtead, Fetcham and Great and Little Bookham.
It is eighteen miles from our showroom, the north-western edge of the area we cover. The survey, the fitters and the guarantee are the same as they are in East Grinstead.
What we fit
Windows, doors and conservatories for Leatherhead homes
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
New doors
Detached houses on deep plots are where bifold and sliding doors come into their own: a wide opening onto the garden, in slim aluminium frames that hold their line for years.
Conservatories and extensions
Houses on good plots in Fetcham, Bookham and Ashtead take an extension or an orangery well. South of the town the land is Green Belt and, towards Mickleham, Surrey Hills, where the limits are tighter.
Home improvements
Kitchens, flooring and plastering come from the same group, which matters when new doors are one part of opening up the back of a house.
Homes in Leatherhead
A historic crossroads and inter-war suburbs
Most of Leatherhead was built in two bursts, the 1930s and the 1950s.
Bridge Street, Church Street and North Street keep several old buildings, among them the fifteenth-century Running Horse and seventeenth-century Hampton Cottage. Church Road has cottages and villas of the mid to late nineteenth century in stucco, red brick and tile-hanging, most still with single-glazed wooden sashes, and Queen Anne’s Terrace is dated 1894.
Beyond the centre, much of the housing dates from the 1930s or the 1950s. South Leatherhead has some striking 1930s villas, Leatherhead Common has two large 1950s estates, and the Reigate and Headley Roads are Edwardian and inter-war.
Fetcham runs into the town across the river, and Ashtead and the Bookhams have council design codes of their own. All three are largely detached and semi-detached houses with room round them.
Our work
The kind of work Leatherhead asks us for
All our own installations, photographed on site across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Select a photo to see it full size.
Local planning
Planning permission for windows and doors in Leatherhead
Mole Valley District Council decides planning applications in Leatherhead until 31 March 2027. East Surrey Council replaces it on 1 April 2027.
The Leatherhead conservation area, designated in 1974 and twice extended, covers the old centre. Four parts of it have Article 4 directions: Church Road and Church Walk, Upper Fairfield Road, the west side of Linden Road, and Queen Anne’s Terrace. Householders there must apply for permission to alter, install or replace doors and windows that front the highway.
The council’s guidance says uPVC windows are almost always unacceptable in those streets, and that even timber double glazing may be unwelcome where single-glazed timber windows are part of a building’s character.
Elsewhere in the town, replacing windows and doors on a house is normally permitted development. For anything that does need permission, the Leatherhead Design Code of November 2025 applies, and it is written to be complied with: a design that does not meet it will be refused unless a case is made.
The national rules, briefly
- Replacing the windows and doors of a house does not normally need planning permission, as long as the new ones look similar to the old.
- Flats and maisonettes do not have that right, and a listed building needs listed building consent. Check with the council before changing either.
- Every replacement window and external door has to meet Building Regulations. We’re Certass registered, so we certify the work ourselves and you receive the certificate within eight weeks.
- A conservatory or single-storey rear extension is often permitted development too, within size limits that tighten in conservation areas and protected landscapes.
Projects
Recent projects
We haven’t written up a job in Leatherhead itself yet. These show the standard of work, with photos and the detail of what was done.
Georgian sash windows, doors and rooftrim
Twenty-five white woodgrain sash windows with Georgian bars, three doors, an aluminium bifold and new rooftrim on a detached home.
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Whole-house renovation
Windows, doors, a Supalite warm roof extension, kitchen, cloakroom, flooring and decorating — all handled by one team from start to finish.
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New windows, driveway and patio
New windows and doors, a gravel driveway, and a garden rebuilt around a sandstone patio and a slate-roofed timber pergola.
View project
Customer reviews
What our customers say
Rated 10/10 from 149 reviews on Checkatrade, where we’ve been a vetted member since 2014.
Where we work
Leatherhead and the places around it
We cover the whole of Leatherhead, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
- Ashtead
- Fetcham
- Great Bookham
- Little Bookham
- Effingham
- Oxshott
- Mickleham
- Headley
- Givons Grove
- Stoke D’Abernon
- Cobham
Nearby areas: Dorking, Epsom, Reigate. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Leatherhead: your questions
Can’t see what you need? Call 01342 410079 and we’ll answer it properly.
Do I need planning permission for new windows in Leatherhead?
Not normally for a house, if the new windows look similar to the old. The exceptions are four parts of the conservation area with Article 4 directions: Church Road and Church Walk, Upper Fairfield Road, the west side of Linden Road and Queen Anne’s Terrace. There, any door or window facing the highway needs permission.
Bifold or sliding doors: which is better?
Bifolds fold right back to clear almost the whole opening, which is the point if you want the garden and the room to run together in summer. Sliding doors have larger panes and less frame, so the view is better when they are shut, which is most of the year. We will show you both.
Do I need permission to fit bifold doors?
Fitting bifolds into an existing opening on a house is normally permitted development. Widening the opening is building work: it needs a lintel sized for the span and Building Regulations approval, both of which we arrange. On a flat, a listed building or an Article 4 street, ask the council first.
Do you cover Ashtead, Fetcham and Bookham?
Yes, along with Effingham, Mickleham, Headley and Oxshott. Leatherhead is the north-western edge of the area we cover, eighteen miles from the showroom.
Free quotations
Ready for a quote in Leatherhead?
Book a free, no-obligation survey at your home in Leatherhead, or come and see us at the East Grinstead showroom.